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Office 2021 Arriving October 5, No Subscription Required

September 17, 2021 news

Microsoft Office 2021 is arriving on October 5, and users will be able to purchase it for a one-time fee and no subscription. While Microsoft has gone all-in on Microsoft 365, it’s subscription-based version of the popular office suite, there are many instances where individuals and companies may not want to be locked into a subscription. For those customers, Microsoft makes Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), for both Windows and macOS. According to a blog post by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, Office LTSC offers some performance improvements,…

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Google Beats Bing, Yandex & Blekko At Keeping Malware Out Of Search Results [Study]

September 16, 2021 news

About three years ago, Google was labeled in one study as the “King of Malware.” Things have apparently changed a lot since then. A new study reports that Google is beating its primary search competitors pretty significantly when it comes to keeping malware out of search results. The 18-month study (PDF), done by a German […] About three years ago, Google was labeled in one study as the “King of Malware.” Things have apparently changed a lot since then. A new study reports that Google is beating its primary search competitors pretty…

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Google to enforce unique product identifiers on free merchant listings

September 15, 2021 news

Starting on September 15, 2021, Google said it will begin to enforce the requirement of products having unique product identifiers in the merchant feeds for free listings. Google will start enforcing the requirements to have unique product identifiers on your product listing feeds with Google Merchant Center tomorrow, September 15, 2021, the search company announced. What are unique product identifiers (UPIs). Google said a unique product identifier, also known as UPIs, are considered products that include Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs), Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPNs), and brand names in the product…

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Search Engine Land adds technical, in-house SEO experts to team

September 13, 2021 news

Detlef Johnson and Jessica Bowman will contribute content and expertise to our website and annual SMX events. Search Engine Land is thrilled to announce that the team of experts who help us bring daily search marketing news and insights to thousands just got a bit bigger and better. Detlef Johnson, a longtime figure in the world of search engine optimization with more than 20 years in the industry, has joined us as Editor-at-Large, Technical SEO. In addition to regular contributions to Search Engine Land, Detlef will help program our three annual…

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Advertisers will now get more data in Google Ads… sort of; Friday’s daily brief

September 11, 2021 news

Plus, the conundrum of in-house career progression Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and do you remember office life? By now you probably know I work from a coworking space. They’ve recently started construction to expand it, which is great because there will be more room! But it’s also awful because…

Microsoft: ‘The Digital Employee Experience IS The Employee Experience’

September 10, 2021 news

Microsoft has shared a number of insights about how remote work has become the “new normal,” and updated several apps to reflect that. Like many companies, Microsoft was working to bring employees back into the office starting in October. With the surge in Delta cases, however, the company is not only pushing back its return to the office date, but is no longer projecting a new target. Instead, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Modern Work, the company recognizes “our ability to come together will ebb and flow,” and will…

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Microsoft Warns Customers of Major Azure Security Issue

September 9, 2021 news

Microsoft is warning impacted customers of a flaw in Azure Container Instances (ACI) that could allow individuals to access other customers information. It’s been a bad few weeks for Microsoft on the security front. Research firm Wiz discovered a flaw — named #ChaosDB — in Azure’s Cosmos DB that could allow a hacker to access other users’ databases. Now Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new flaw that could allow a malicious user to gain access to other information in the ACI service, according to Microsoft. The company says it has already fixed the…

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Bing content submission API now available to all

September 8, 2021 news

Now you can push your content and HTML directly to Bing Search without the need for crawling. Microsoft has opened up its Bing content submission API after over two and half years of it being in a private beta. The content submission API is different from the Bing URL submission API, in that the content submission API lets you submit not just your URLs but also your content, images, HTML and more directly to Bing’s index. Microsoft said “the API provides the ability for webmasters to notify Bing directly about the changes in…

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Google page experience update is now rolled out

September 7, 2021 news

The Google News app changes have about a week more to go. Google confirmed that it completed the page experience update rollout today. This includes the updates to the Top Stories carousel on mobile search but the Google News app changes won’t be done for a week, say Google reps. Google began rolling out the page experience update on June 15th and told us it would be completed by the end of August. It technically was not finished before the end of August and has about a week more to go, but it is…